Scope and Contents These holdings do not include all of Jones's correspondence in the field of biology, since he believed that collections, papers and letters about material from a given region should be deposited and preserved in that area. Other letters have been distributed among various individual correspondents, Boston Museum of Natural History, Society of Natural History of Wilmington, Delaware, and the U. S. National Museum. The Academy's collection contains letters from 166 authors who wrote a total of...

Scope and Contents At the age of 16 Jones began a journal of his field work in Lepidoptera, this being the year before he graduated from High School. No significant break in the recording of Lepidopterous catches is noticed in his journals which end in September 1959. His collections of general Lepidoptera and his cabinet of bagworms and their moths were extensive and have been variously deposited in the museums of the U. S. National Museum, Boston Museum of Natural History, Academy of Natural Sciences of...